Cuspidor-holder



(No Model.)

W. F. WELLMAN. GUSPIDOR HOLDER.

No. 245,246. Patented Aug. 2,1881;

ATTORNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ILLARD F. WELLMAN, OF BELFAST, MAINE.

CUSPlDOR-HOLDER.

- SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No, 245,246, dated August 2, 1881.

Application filed January 15, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLARD F. WELLMAN, of Belfast, in the county. of Waldo and State of Maine, have invented a new and Improved Ouspidor-Holder, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to provide a device for holding a cuspidor, in connection with a chair or other article of furniture, in such a manner that it can be used very conveniently when desired, but is concealed when not in use. 4

The invention consists of a bar or rod journaled vertically to the sides or arm-rests of a chair, and provided with an angular arm for holding the cuspidor at the lower end, which bar can be rotated on its longitudinal axis by means of a handle or knob at its upper end, whereby the cuspidoris swung under the chairseat, or out from under the same.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of a chair provided with my improved cuspidor-holder. Fig. 2 is a cross-sectional elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a detail front elevation of the cuspidor, showing the manner in which the'spring-arms hold it.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A rod, A, provided with a right-angledarm, B, at the lower end and a like arm, 0, at the upper end, is journaled vertically to the side or arm rest, D, of a chair, railway-seat, bench, or other suitable article of furniture, in such a manner that this rod rotates on its longitudinal axis.

The end of the upper arm, B, of the rod A is provided with a knob or button, E, and the lower arm, (3, is forked and made to spring, so that it will hold the cuspidor Gr firmly, the neck of which is surrounded by the curved spring-shanks of the lower arm, 0.

If desired, the shanks may be hinged and looked after having been placed against the neck of the cuspidor or the cuspidor may be held by the arm 0 in any other suitable man? ner.

A spring, F, is fastened to the arm-rest D and to the rod A, and forces the arm 0 under the seat of the chair. It the rod A is slightly inclined from the top of the arm-rest D toward the front of the lower edge of the same, the spring F could be dispensed with, as the weight of the cuspidor would be sufficient to cause it to swing under the chair.

The rod A is preferably made of two thinner rods twisted together, as the forked arm 0 can then he formed very easily. The ends of these wires are bent up, as shown at a a, so as to prevent scratching of the cuspidor while inserting it.

The cuspidor will swing out from under the seat of the chair as soon as the knob E is moved outward, and as soon as this knob is released the cuspidor will swing under the seat of the chair, either under the action of the spring F or the weight of the cuspidor. It is thus entirely out of the way when not in US6- I am aware that it is not new to journal a rod in a car so as to close the top and open the bottom, or the reverse, at each half-revolution, or to make cuspidor-lifters of doubled and twisted wire with two spring-forks at the lower end; but

What I claim is- 1. The combination, with a chair and cuspidor, of the wire rod A, having a right-angled rest at the upper end and two right-angled arms at the lower end, the latter embracing the neck of cuspidor, and the medium part of rod being held by keepers on the side of chair, as shown and described.

2. The combination, with side or arm-rest D of a chair, of the rod A, having armsB and G at the upper and lower end, respectively, of the knob E and the cuspidor G, substantially as herein shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

3. In a cuspidor-holder, the combination, with the side or arm-rest D of a chair, of the rod A, having arms B and O, and the spring F, substantially as herein shown and described, and for the purposes set forth.

WILLARD FRANK WELLMAN.

Witnesses:

WM. 0. THOMPSON, GEORGE F. MURST. 

